Anonymous
Community variant

Short chess

Not too complicated
This is a user-catalogued casual variant. Technical details such as board size, FEN, pieces, and hand rules are defined in the Fairy-Stockfish variants.ini block below.
Uploaded by
Thoobo
Visibility
public
Status
active

Generated rule overview

This variant inherits its base rules from `chess` and overrides the settings shown below.

Board and setup

Default starting position

Pieces and movement

  • The piece set used on the board is: king (k), rook (r), bishop (b), knight (n), custom piece 1 (p) and archbishop (a).
  • custom piece 1 (p) is a custom piece with Betza movement `fWfcF`.

Move rules

  • Castling is allowed.

Promotion

  • Promotions are available in the configured promotion zones. The the promotion region for White is all squares on rank 7 and the promotion region for Black is all squares on rank 1.
  • The pieces that can promote are: custom piece 1 (p).
  • Promotion choices are both sides: rook (r), knight (n), bishop (b) and archbishop (a).

Piece movement

These diagrams show custom pieces and known Fairy-Stockfish built-in fairy pieces from White's perspective on a compact preview board. Some special moves, especially hoppers and game-state-dependent moves, can still depend on blockers or game state.

Custom piece 1 (P) movement
Custom piece 1 (P) movementP
fWfcF
move capture move or capture initial only hopper target

Fairy-Stockfish rules

ini
[mysevencamel2:chess]
maxFile = 7
maxRank = 7

# ุชู… ุชุนุฏูŠู„ ุงู„ุฌู†ูˆุฏ ุฅู„ู‰ ุงู„ุฑู…ุฒ ุงู„ู‚ูŠุงุณูŠ P ู„ู„ุฃุจูŠุถ ูˆ p ู„ู„ุฃุณูˆุฏ ู…ุน ุงู„ุญูุงุธ ุนู„ู‰ ุงู„ููƒุฑุฉ
startFen = rnbknbr/ppppppp/7/7/7/PPPPPPP/RNBKNBR w KQkq - 0 1

# ุชุฎุตูŠุต ุญุฑูƒุฉ ุงู„ุญุฑู p ู„ูŠุชุญุฑูƒ ุฎุทูˆุฉ ูˆุงุญุฏุฉ ู„ู„ุฃู…ุงู… ูˆูŠุฃูƒู„ ู‚ุทุฑูŠุงู‹ (ู…ู†ุน ุงู„ุฎุทูˆุชูŠู† ู†ู‡ุงุฆูŠุงู‹)
customPiece1 = p:fWfcF

# ุฑุจุท ุงู„ู‚ุทุนุฉ p ุจู†ุธุงู… ุงู„ุชุฑู‚ูŠุฉ ุงู„ูƒู„ุงุณูŠูƒูŠ ู„ู„ุดุทุฑู†ุฌ ุนู†ุฏ ุงู„ุตู ุงู„ุฃุฎูŠุฑ
pawnTypes = p
promotionRegionWhite = *7
promotionRegionBlack = *1

# ุชูุนูŠู„ ู‚ุทุนุฉ ุงู„ุฃู…ูŠุฑุฉ (a) ูˆุงู„ุชุจูŠูŠุช
archbishop = a
promotionPieceTypes = r n b a
castling = true